distemperate

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distemperate (comparative more distemperate, superlative most distemperate)

(obsolete) immoderate
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
  there is any inconvenience or distemperate heat found
(obsolete) diseased; disordered
- 1623, John Wodroephe
  Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “distemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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premeditates